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PERSEVERE

Wilma Rudolph didn't get much of a head start in life. A bout with polio left her left leg crooked and her foot twisted inward so she had to wear leg braces. After seven years of painful therapy, she could walk without her braces. At age 12, Wilma tried out for a girls basketball team, but didn't make it. Determined, she practiced every day. The next year she made the team. When a college track coach saw her during a game, he talked her into letting him train her as a runner. By age 14, she had outrun the fastest sprinters in the U.S. In 1956 Wilma made the U.S. Olympic team, but showed poorly. That bitter disappointment motivated her to work harder for the 1960 Olympics in Rome-- and there Wilma Rudolph won three gold medals, the most a woman had ever won then.

Persevere.



Today's message ¬





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NEXT MONTH, we bring you the second issue in our series on Character dubbed endurance.

Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
—James 1:2—4, NLT

#Endurance. Stay tuned.



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